Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page vii
... hold up his vices and his mis- fortunes to the public scorn - to be " keen and critical " upon “ learning , late deceas'd in beggary . " The conjecture which we offer may have little weight , and the point is certainly of very small ...
... hold up his vices and his mis- fortunes to the public scorn - to be " keen and critical " upon “ learning , late deceas'd in beggary . " The conjecture which we offer may have little weight , and the point is certainly of very small ...
Page viii
... hold , ' which , he says , ' is , plainly , a sarcasm on Lodge's pamphlet , called Wits Miserie , and the Worlds Madnesse ; discovering the Incarnate Devils of this age . ' Lodge's tract was printed in 1596 , and as he mentions other ...
... hold , ' which , he says , ' is , plainly , a sarcasm on Lodge's pamphlet , called Wits Miserie , and the Worlds Madnesse ; discovering the Incarnate Devils of this age . ' Lodge's tract was printed in 1596 , and as he mentions other ...
Page xviii
... which others hold to proceed from a meteor falling , or some accidental rankness of the ground ; so nature sports herself . . . . Paracelsus reckons up many .... ... places in Germany , where they do usually walk xviii PREFACE .
... which others hold to proceed from a meteor falling , or some accidental rankness of the ground ; so nature sports herself . . . . Paracelsus reckons up many .... ... places in Germany , where they do usually walk xviii PREFACE .
Page 11
... hold or cut bow - strings . [ Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE I. A wood near Athens . Enter , from opposite sides , a FAIRY , and PUCK . Puck . How now , spirit ! whither wander you ? Fai . Over hill , over dale , Thorough bush , thorough brier ...
... hold or cut bow - strings . [ Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE I. A wood near Athens . Enter , from opposite sides , a FAIRY , and PUCK . Puck . How now , spirit ! whither wander you ? Fai . Over hill , over dale , Thorough bush , thorough brier ...
Page 13
... hold their hips and laugh , And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there . But , room , fairy ! here comes Oberon . Fai . And here my mistress . 50 Would that he were gone ! Enter , from one side ...
... hold their hips and laugh , And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there . But , room , fairy ! here comes Oberon . Fai . And here my mistress . 50 Would that he were gone ! Enter , from one side ...
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